Asheville billboards will flash support of Muslim, immigrants over holidays

11:02 AM,
Dec. 14, 2011

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Images of happy immigrant and Muslim families will soon flash across digital billboards around town in a campaign to promote community understanding and tolerance.

"We wanted to build a movement and put a human face on immigration. They're families just like us," said Kristin Collins, director of Uniting NC, a Raleigh-based nonprofit that unveiled the billboard campaign Tuesday.

The billboards were paid for using a grassroots method called "crowdfunding." Uniting NC proposed the project online, and more than 250 people contributed $3,500 toward the cost of buying billboards here and ...